Mastodon has a ton of apps and Lemmy app development is going crazy right now. Are there any apps that can use both Lemmy and Mastodon accounts (and preferably Kbin accounts too)? I know the interfaces may need to be different, but the protocols are the same as far as I understand it, so it seems technically possible.
Not quite yet, it’s assumed that some of the bigger Reddit apps that are shutting down may do all three to maximise their userbase.
Fediverse is Fun please
Relay for Lemmy as well, but they actually seem to be trying to adapt to the new API for whatever reason.
Infinity dev wants to go that route as well (paid subscription) thankfully Infinity is open source so people are doing what the dev won’t do and forked it to add support for other platforms as well as supplying your own API key to use Reddit.
Sadly I think the RIF dev is moving to Tildes
That would be great. It’ll take some pretty good UI/UX design to make a single experience that works well for both types of communities. Looking forward to seeing what developers come up with.
Fedilab handles mastodon, pixelfed and peertube in one app. It’s the most multifunctional app I know of. Pretty impressive, but it doesn’t do lemmy/kbin, or even misskey.
But isn’t it true that mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities as if the community was a virtual user? So in a sense you can view Lemmy through Fedilab but you have to be logged in thru mastodon or pixelfed?
It isn’t working perfectly, I tried following [email protected] from mastodon and couldn’t.
@ragica
i think it probably will in time+1 for Fedilab It could use some improvements, but I am quite happy with it being able to look at multiple servers and follow different user from a single place.
I’ve been planning on trying out Infinity for Everything
You can see posts on Lemmy community already. But can’t see comments. Also no iogin for now.
How? Mine just turns up empty, and as you say, you can’t login yet
I wasn’t able to view Lemmy content (actually any content) on the build I downloaded. How did you view them on yours?
First goto 3 dot menu > more options > go to subreddit Then input the lemmy community name in the following format :
lemmy:android.worldto visit https://lemmy.world/c/androidAh I see thank you for telling me. I just tried it and it seems to work, though it is a bit finicky (gives random 502 errors) but that’s to be expected from alpha software. Hopefully this will get better in the future.
There is any release yet?
It’s still in Alpha, you can still try it out but I warn you it’s very very buggy at the moment. It does have a lot of potential though, hopefully it’ll get better as time goes on.
Uh, what is this?
Speaking as someone who used Infinity for Reddit.
It’s a fork that aims to add support to Infinity for a bunch of other platforms, among those kbin and lemmy. It’ll also let you use Reddit but that’ll be much more limited than before since you need to provide your own API keys and you won’t be able to access NSFW.
Amazing. Loved Infinity for Reddit. I’ll definitely keep my eye on this.
Isn’t kbin compatible with both Lemmy and Mastodon? I see tons of Mastodon content in the Microblog tab currently
I believe it is, yeah. I hear kbin.social’s servers are absolutely swamped right now and having lots of issues, so I don’t want to contribute to that, but I’m probably going to make a kbin instance my home soon. Does anyone know where to find a list of instances kbin.social has defederated?
I may be wrong, but of all the apps (Android) currently being developed or planned for development - I think I’ve read that Artemis will support all three - Mastodon, Lemmy and KBin.
This is their KBin magazine
I am using thunder and its been great so far. Look and feel is like Infinity for Reddit. Its on Github and izzydroid repo in Fdroid.
How does it feel on Mastodon posts? Are you able to follow Mastodon users?
lemmy isn’t federated with mastodon(for now)
Lemmy is entirely federated with mastodon now. there are many issues still but you can look up a lemmy community by @[email protected] from mastodon and follow it there and then you will recieve all posts from that community in your home feed. if you want to reply to a spesific lemmy post from mastodon (broken on instances running 0.18 but working on earlier versions) you can copy the link from the little rainbow fediverse icon on the top of the post and search it from mastodon, and it will load internally and then you can respond from there.
Probably due to not being compatible with Microblogging/Profile posts. If they added that feature they could probably make mastodon stuff work.
I’m still experimenting but it looks like I’ll be using Mastodon as my hub - I can follow users on the Fediverse and communities on Lemmy. As I can follow my various Fediverse accounts (and bring them all together in a list) I can post about any of it to my feed there.
This interoperability may be a big selling point of the Fediverse - rather than competing apps that try and keep users within their own spheres of control, the Fediverse apps play nicely together, so you can use the right tool for the job and then post about it elsewhere. So I may use Pixelfed for photo sharing or Peertube for videos, but it is trivial to also post about this on Mastodon and not that much effort make a post on it in Lemmy.
Following communities from mastodon is generally a very poor experience IMO.
Mastodon doesn’t display threads at all, it’s just a long trail of posts without any structure. Not to even mention the structure of post with comments inside.
Beyond that there are basically no feed sorting tools. And while you can use lists, they take quite a bit of work to maintain, and, annoyingly, aren’t exclusive so that everything you follow still ends up in your home timeline creating a real firehose especially with active lemmy communities.
The only platform design that can be actual hubs are kbin and friendica AFAICT. Kbin is a bit rough around the edges and friendica is like Facebook (which may suit many people actually) and quite capable.
Mastodon, IMO, does what it does well, but is a an annoying limited platform.
KBin handles mastodon (at least to some degree)? So I think that would be the one - that supports itself, lemmy, and mastodon
Is there any app currently that does misskey or kbin?
